This is a video, posted on 15 October to Facebook, of one of Syria's stronger rebel factions setting a marijuana field ablaze. The incineration of the weed underscores a basic problem for the US's approach to Syria's bloody civil war.
No, not because the US suddenly decriminalised marijuana. It's because the Farouq Brigades, generally considered a competent and media-savvy rebel militia, is promoting its willingness to destroy a drug crop. That's an action usually identified more with Islamic militant groups than secular ones. And it goes to show how little the US still knows about the Syrian opposition, even as Washington debates directly arming the rebels.
By: Spencer Ackerman, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/17/syrian-rebels-burn-down-marijuana-field
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